“Curiosity may have killed the cat, but satisfaction brought him back.” — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Follow your curiosity, and have the courage to meet the challenge. That's where science starts, in my opinion. — Tasuku Honjo Copy Share Image
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
There's so much interest and curiosity about alien life, interstellar travel. It's always in the news. — Bonnie Hammer Copy Share Image
Kids are naturally curious about what they don't know, or don't understand, or what is foreign to them. They only learn to… — Aimee Mullins Copy Share Image
It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The ability to retain a child's view of the world with at the same time a mature understanding of what it means… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm really excited about the places I've gone and the places I'm going, internally and externally speaking, and working to bring different… — Victoria Mahoney Copy Share Image
Profound question is how do you measure the non-skills component of what goes on in schools: values, curiosity, critical thinking, and so… — Nicholas Lemann Copy Share Image
Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even… — Samuel Horsley Copy Share Image
Amid apocalyptic dystopia, 'Fahrenheit 451''s protagonist retains sparks of curiosity, creativity, and courage, and these human characteristics are the seeds of hope… — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
An interest in the brain requires no justification other than a curiosity to know why we are here, what we are doing… — Paul D. MacLean Copy Share Image
Anytime new insight replaces an old assumption or a fossilized perception is the spring. New understandings sprout, new tolerances appear, and new… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
But we are so fond of life that we have no leisure to entertain the terror of death. It is a honeymoon… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
**New business concepts are always, always the product of lucky foresight.** That's right - the essential insight doesn't come out of any… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
Be neat, Philothea; let nothing be negligent about you. It is a kind of contempt of those with whom we converse, to… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
The most unhappy people in the world are those who face the days without knowing what to do with their time. But… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Or is there a natural curiosity and sense of wonder that arises and puts you very much in touch with all of… — Nirmala Copy Share Image
“That is the hazard in curiosity, I thought: all the certainties fragment and dissolve. A man curious enough and persistent enough might… — Gary Jennings Copy Share Image
There may be wonder in money, but, dear God, there is money in wonder. — Enid Bagnold Copy Share Image
